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Why I maintain the belief I’ll never have to think about it when I’m told to “[just] think about it.”

mental_disconnectReminder: Japanese comics/manga are read from right to left.

I am fond of going back and occasionally looking at these window excerpts from “One Piece”. I’d always thought that because One Piece is targeted towards a shounen audience I wouldn’t find it enjoyable, I thought this all the way up to just within the last year. But, as I read the manga I found that even after 700 chapters Eiichiro Oda has maintained a seamless progression of events that aren’t plagued by inconsistencies, or hurried attempts at rationalizing newly introduced characteristics, in his world. After he introduces a new element to the manga he opts to let the story continue on for a couple hundred chapters with only brief and occasional mentions of the new story device before he even starts to develop it in the manga’s story. It makes for a very natural feeling of development while reading.

Aside from the enjoyable storytelling implementation, there has been another aspect of the manga to keep my attention. Between the legally accommodated slave trade, the ruling class Tenryuubito, the revelations that corrupt individuals come from all backgrounds, the divisiveness between factions despite sharing many of the same ambitions, and the inability of the ruling forces to differentiate between well-meaning groups that are only outlaws in name and full-fledged criminals, it feels to me like the whole story is an allegory to the complex political relations of our world. I might try to elaborate on this suspicion later but right now I don’t care to write several pages for a blog post today.

March 17, 2013 | Categories: Politics | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Some Comments I’ve Not Yet Shared- pt. 1

So, sometimes when I get engrossed with writing comments for news article sites I end up not realizing when I’ve gone over the character limits.  And then I inevitably don’t post most of those comments at all because I do not want to reduce the content of the posts.

Here’s one such comment that was addressing the lack of scandal evidence found in Benghazi reports:

What I got from this is that the official reports still reflect a large amount of controversy surrounding the Benghazi debacle but many of the criticisms have been aimed in the wrong direction.  The one criticism people still have the right to charge towards the white house is that the inappropriate crediting of it as a response to an anti-islamic film was an excessively speculative and premature decision.  Though a lot of people probably would have assumed the exact same thing given that there was a large turnout of protesters in islamic countries and the rabble flocking to the embassy were inside an islamic country.  Real problems with the handling of the issue seem to be rooted in the incompetence of our bureaucratic structure and the insufficient budget apportionment to address this kind of exigency.  The budget problem seems to be congresses fault but the department of state is part of the executive branch so you’d think the Obama administration would have some hand in that area.

January 6, 2013 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , | Leave a comment